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Wooden Garden Arbor

How a wooden garden arbor can enhance your garden and landscape design. Wood arbors add height and drama to the garden more subtly than metal or vinyl arbors as they blend more naturally into the landscape.

If left natural, these wood arbors will fade to a soft gray with age. If you want to keep them looking just the way they do in these pictures, paint them with a sealant before or after assembly.

Of course, you also have the option of painting or staining them any color you like.

This white cedar pergola arbor looks right at home spanning the earthen path between these packed-to-the-gills herbaceous borders.

In a garden like this, the arbor is not just decorative but serves as a beacon to visitors telling them where they may pass through.

The garden depicted is an ebullient mixture of annuals and tall perennials but this lattice arbor would shine just as brightly in an overstuffed potager.

The kitchen garden could be designed along these same lines with herbs lining and spilling onto the path and large vegetables like artichokes planted toward the back. The trellis sides would be useful for training pea or bean vines.

Dimensions: 42" W opening x 85" H x 17.5" D.

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